I’ve lived alone in the Wildwoods for a century.Then a botanist hit me with a shovel.

Things deteriorated from there.
You can meet her in Rootbound.

Corina has spent her life studying enchanted plants, medicinal roots, and the many beautiful things in the forest capable of killing you. So when a forbidden Heart-Root carrying the unmistakable magic of the rival Thorn Court appears among her silver roses, she does what any sensible botanist would do: she tries to get rid of it.

That is how she ends up connected to Tristan Silverthorne, an exiled Thorn fairy who has spent the last hundred years in the Wildwoods and has no intention of returning to the Court that cast him out. Corina has just as little interest in sharing her emotions, magic, or increasingly private thoughts with a man who finds her irritation far too entertaining.

Their unwanted connection soon becomes the smaller problem. Something is poisoning the ley-lines beneath the neutral zone, changing the forest and driving its creatures beyond their usual territories. Corina can feel the damage spreading through the roots, while Tristan knows the Wildwoods well enough to understand where it may lead. Finding the source means crossing the forest together and getting considerably closer than either of them intended.

Corina belongs to sunlight. Tristan has made a life among shadows. Neither is willing to surrender what they are, and neither intends to let an ancient root decide what happens between them.

Whatever grows next will be their choice.

Rootbound: A Fairy Love is an adult romantasy by Cara Ravelli, with botanical magic, rival fairy Courts, humor, heat, and a romance where choosing each other matters more than being chosen.

Different roots. Same direction.